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Dame Edith Evans talks about acting Shakespeare’s plays, the ways in which she approaches different characters and the importance of language.
BBC schools television programme presented by Steve Blacknell which looks at two Shakespeare plays. Estelle Kohler and Emrys Jones from the Royal Shakespeare Company play first Olivia and Malvolio and then...
Educational videotape. Kathleen Conlin presents a series of physical exercises to aid performance of the Shakespeare text. Designed for the American actor, it moves from the exploration of specific words and...
A history of swordplay tracing the evolution of civilian swords and fighting techniques from the street fights of the 16th century to the swordplay of the 18th century fencing schools, drawing on texts and...
Ian Richardson lectures to students and theatre practitioners on acting Shakespeare, Elizabethan English, Shakespeare’s use of classical allusions, bawdy and verse reading. Recorded at the Bruno Walter...
A compilation of Shakespeare-related stories broadcast on PBS’s THE NEWSHOUR. Includes a discussion of a recently discovered work thought to be by Shakespeare, film treatments of Shakespeare’s plays, a...
Presents a series of exercises relating to basic acting problems. Shows the work of a first-year group of students at the Central School of Speech and Drama; their activities guided by the actor Harold Lang....
BBC schools television programme presented by Steve Blacknell in which four actors from the Royal Shakespeare Company tackle two famous scenes from Shakespeare, the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet and...
Television arts series. Peter Brook and his Experimental Theatre Company prepare for a production of The Tempest and are seen in acting exercises and performance. Brook believes that we no longer know what...
Television arts documentary. In 1976 and 1977 Alan Howard played three major roles in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s repertory - Coriolanus, Henry V and Henry VI (in parts 1, II and III). The programme...
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